Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Google buys Motorola... so what next??

Google has acquired Motorola 12.5 billion dollars which is close to double the amount Oracle paid for Sun and Java. The acquision is mostly about the patents for mobile business which Google has under estimated so far. Actually this reminded me the blog post of former Sun CEO Schwartz.

So thats pretty much the reason, Google needed patents to defend themselves (and the partners) also since android has achieved a great success, it might be wise to jumo into hardware business and make few bucks out of it.

Till today Google released two Android devices with Google brand on it... the Nexus One and Nexus S. Both are reference implementations of the upcoming Android Os releases and great hardware but none were as appealing as Apple devices.

Google has choosen another strategy and stepback in implemantation release of Honeycomb and left it to Motorola with the Zoom. That time Samsung was questioning why Motorola had more access to new OS than any others who were also building devices.

Today everyone is congratulating Google for the buyout and defending its partners but very soon this acquision might bring if everyone has equal access to new sources. However if Google succeeds to keep Android as an open platform, it might just drive all other vendors to design great appealing devices as well as good hardware.

So good move Google, expensive but a clever move... Wonder if Apple would buy the USA as a countermove since they have that much cash.